Biographical Sketch of Daniel A. Brennan, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Daniel A. Brennan was born in Dauphin County, Penn., January 15, 1840,
the fifth in the family of ten children born to Thomas and Ann (McAll-
ister) Brennan, natives, respectively, of Counties Donegal and Antrim,
Ireland, who came to the United States at the respective ages of thirty
and fifteen years.  Mr. Brennan was a day laborer until he came to
Missouri, when he engaged in farming.  He died in 1863 at the age of
sixty-six years, and was one of the most substantial citizens of the
county.  Mrs. Ann Brennan died in 1873, aged sixty-six years.  When an
infant Daniel A. Brennan was taken to Louisiana by his parents, who 
moved to St. Louis in 1843, and the following year settled on the farm
where our subject has since resided.  He owns two tracts of land, of
144 and 274 acres respectively, on the Meramec River, well improved and
stocked.  February 15, 1863, he married Miss Ann Dunnigan, a native of
Ireland, and a daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Markey) Dunnigan, 
natives of County Louth, Ireland.  Mr. and Mrs. Brennan are the parents
of ten children, viz.: Mary, Thomas M., Annie, Elizabeth, Agnes, Daniel,
James, Alice, Joseph, Pearl L.  The parents are members of the Catholic
Church.  In political preference Mr. Brennan is Democratic.  He has
served as justice of the peace at different times ten years, and was
elected chief register of the county immediately after the war.  He was
appointed postmaster at Catawissa in January, 1885, and established his
present mercantile business in 1882.  He was first associated with A.H.
Daniel, whose interest was soon afterward purchased by Mr. Brennan, and 
his son Thomas M. Brennan admitted to the partnership.  He served in 
the Missouri State militia during the late war; is a member of the 
A. O. U. W. and K. of P., and also of the "Franklin County Protective
Association."  Besides these he belongs to the Catholic Knights of 
America and Order of Chosen Friends. (Since the above was written Mr.
Brennan's partner, T. M. Brennan, who was the eldest son, died on the
16th of December, 1887, aged twenty-two years, three months and nine-
teen days.  He was a member of Star Council, No. 32, Order of Chosen
Friends, in the State of Missouri and town of Catawissa.)

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